my goal is to run a command like ranger ~/.julia/ --choosefile=$(joinpath(homedir(),".julia")) however, i get this error when I try to use ~ in the path names julia> run(`ranger $("~/.julia/")`) Inaccessible paths: ['~/.julia/'] ERROR: failed process: Process(`ranger '~/.julia/'`, ProcessExited(1…

How to use ~ in a Cmd

StefanKarpinski April 6, 2019, 6:25pm 2

Call expanduser on the path first.

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